VL 5.8 soho worked fine on my system (mobo:intel 915gav) till I bought a new widescreen lcd monitor with a resolution of 1440x900. The screen area is covered fully, but the fonts are not crisp. Control center shows a resolution of 1024x768 and didn't have 1440x900 as required resolution. I tried things like putting in correct values for HorizSync and VertRefresh and modelines generated by gtf. Sometimes the resolution changes to 1600x1200 and i have to pan the desktop. I noted from internet that some intel boards have this problem and tried the utility called 915resolution. It changes the bios settings alright, but VL still does not work correctly.

I then tried many other distros and none of them set the resolution correctly at during installation. With Mandriva, I was able to tweak xorg.conf so that the resolution is shown correctly as 1440x900, but the fonts were uglier. I then tried putting this xorg.conf file under VL, but this time the fonts appeared huge and i didn't have the patience to check what the resultiong was.

HelloI tried the suggestions. The only way I can force the resolution to 1440x900 seems to be by setting ALL modes using 915resolution. Then the control center does show the resolution correctly, but the fonts are horrible. Also the top and bottom portions of the screen are not visible (only the top edge of the panel is visible, and so the bubble help is the only way to move around). I checked the monitor controls and verified that wrong setting is not the issue here.

Waiting for any possible way out.

Incidentally, I have Win XP on the same machine and works without a hitch.

Thanks for the input. If I leave at least one resolution, other than 1440x900, the system takes that. Setting ALL modes to 1440x900 seems to be the only way I can get to the required resolution. ( By the way, if i change the mode setting for any one resolution using 915resolution then all color depths for that resolution changes. I suppose that is normal)